Re: Shared memory segments hanging around

Jacob Salomon wrote: > > Hi Folks. > > I have a problem I that calls for familiarity with certain quirks. > OnLine DSA 7.13.UC5. > > Main Symptoms: > My users used onmonitor to change the number of locks (150000-->200000). > Onmonitor gives its usual warnings - are you sure blah blah.. But then > all just does nothing - it seems to think it's in recovery. If I bring > up another copy of onmonitor, it still registers OFF LINE. The > online.log contains the following text: > > Thu Jul 31 13:35:35 1997 > > 13:35:35 init_alarm(): alarmprog = '/usr/informix/onalarm.sh' > shell = '/bin/ksh' > 13:35:36 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) > 13:35:36 hpkaioaddseg: ASYNC_ADDSEG failed, errno = 14 > 13:35:36 kaioapi.c, line 73, thread 17, proc id 3166, kaio error. > 13:35:37 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down > [etc] Could it be that you didn't wait long enough for Informix to do a shared memory dump to a file? It would have to complete this before releasing the shared memory. Doesn't explain the PANIC, but perhaps this is why it was strange afterward. -/Renegade